What Is Cloud Hosting?

Private Cloud, or private virtualization, provides you the same redundancies as our Public Cloud offerings, but with the added security of dedicated hardware. Our team will work with you to custom-design a private cloud computing environment that suits your company’s needs. With Private Cloud also comes the opportunity to install any supported operating system. With Private Cloud, you get redundant networking, power, and storage. We can also setup custom replication clusters to help reduce any downtime. With replication, each of your cloud servers are being synchronized on two different physical servers. If one of your physical cloud servers goes down, it will fail-over to the other machine. Private Cloud is a great fit for those managing especially sensitive data that cannot afford any downtime.

Hybrid Cloud gives you the best of both worlds. For your very sensitive data and critical workloads, you can deploy a custom Private Cloud environment. For development environments and less critical workloads, like customer-facing web sites, those can be easily deployed in our Public Cloud. This type of hybrid environment is especially useful when combined with container technologies like Docker. Your less-critical applications can be updated frequently and retain great global reliability across our global data centers, all while keeping your sensitive databases secluded in the private cloud.

is set up initially by our cloud technicians, and is released to you once the setup and basic configuration is completed. Managed cloud also offers configurations with Atlantic.Net’s firewall and intrusion detection system solutions for greater security. These important security measures are administered by Atlantic.Net technicians. This provides you with the peace of mind that additional security brings along with the an optimally configured server environment. If a user needs a more complex configuration or does not have the technical resources or time to devote, managed cloud is a typically a great fit.

Traditional VPS devices can’t resize the server on demand, or re-prioritize server resources dynamically. Atlantic.Net has the ability to increase the size of a cloud server instance on demand in seconds.

Atlantic.Net Public Cloud offers you a pay-as-you-go pricing model with no minimum fee. You only pay for the services you need, for as long as you use them, without requiring long-term contracts or complex licensing agreements. Services are billed on an hourly basis up to the monthly cap rate. The hourly rate is determined by dividing the monthly rate by 672 hours (28 days). If you use a service for more than 672 hours in a month, you will only be billed for the monthly rate (672 hours).. This allows the freedom and flexibility to spin up a server, use it as long as you need, delete the server, and only pay for the time you used.

The dedication of CPU cycles is an important part of a true Cloud infrastructure. With virtual private servers, the CPU cycles is often shared across users with no resource guarantees. This can cause conflicts in utilization as clients with a greater computational need may monopolize the CPU, slowing down all other users. Additionally, some hosts will overclock their CPUs so they can claim higher CPU cycles. Atlantic.Net provides dedicated CPU cycles, utilizes quality CPUs, does not overclock them The CPU speeds shown in a server are the minimum speed it will process at, not “under optimal conditions.”

Atlantic.Net guarantees that each device gets a minimum of an Intel Xeon E5-2620,

as we are constantly upgrading and expanding, it may be higher depending on which system your servers are provisioned on.

Each system has a certain number of guaranteed threads, determined by the size and options associated with the selected Cloud Server plan. We not only guarantee access to the CPU cycles you are paying for when you need them, but you can also burst to use additional CPU cycles when they are not in use.

Some providers over-provision memory for use between multiple virtual machines. Atlantic.Net provides dedicated memory. This prevents resources from being tied up by another user on the server.

Additionally, many VPS companies do not use Error-correcting code (ECC) RAM that can detect and correct the most common kinds of internal data corruption do to the increased hardware costs. At Atlantic.Net, our entire Cloud Hosting environment runs on ECC RAM to prioritize data accuracy and system stability.

Many Cloud or VPS servers still use traditional hard drives. The average hard drive speed is 7200 RPM, equating to about 80-160 MB/s. If you are writing many small files, this can slow down to as little as 0.7-1.3MB/s. At Atlantic.Net, all our Cloud Servers are powered by enterprise-grade solid state drives (SSDs), providing blazing fast performance for your servers and applications. SSDs provide read and write speeds of 4x – 5x the speeds of hard drives.

Atlantic.Net installs the operating system directly on the SSD storage associated with your Cloud Server. A Linux based operating system install is around 5GB or less and a Windows operating system install is about 15GB or less.

If you require a large amount of storage space for your server, please consider our Storage Optimized Cloud Servers. They put an emphasis on storage space rather than CPU and RAM, and will provide the most amount of storage per dollar.

Many VPS devices only allow one public IP per server. All Atlantic.Net Cloud Servers come with one static public IP address. However, you can also provision additional IPs on demand. This means that not only do you get an IP to yourself, it also allows you to attach multiple additional IPs to the server, for network routing or hosting multiple websites.

Additionally, each Atlantic.Net cloud account is assigned a private IP range to allow local networks to be set up between multiple servers in the same datacenter. Some cloud hosting companies charge for private IPs, or for the traffic on these ranges. All Atlantic.Net private network traffic is provided without any cost to you.

Some Cloud or VPS hosting only has one location to choose from. Atlantic.Net has multiple data centers in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with locations coming to Asia in the near future. For optimum personal or business use, different data centers can be chosen to reduce latency times, allow separated distribution, or increase redundancies.

Cloud Hosting tends to be a cost-effective middle ground, allowing rapid customization and upgrade potential. Recently, small businesses have begun moving towards cloud hosting to meet their everyday needs. It allows small businesses to operate in an affordable environment, while still maintaining a dedicated resource pool. Atlantic.Net utilizes RAID-10 and other redundant architecture to prevent system downtime, and maintains a 100% uptime SLA. Any of our Cloud Hosting solutions may also include a firewall appliance and intrusion detection system (IDS) for greater security.

At Atlantic.Net, our World-class cloud hosting platform provides you with the freedom to choose the plans that best fit your budget and business needs. Our plans are designed to provide maximum flexibility to business as well as developers. Please contact us via email at [email protected] or via phone at 888-618-3282 . Our team would be happy to guide you towards the solution that is ideal for your business needs.